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... a photo of in the afternoon before catching a teatime flight to Athens. My week in Athens may or may not include ferry rides to a Greek Island or two, it depends on time and cost. However after a week in Athens I will be flying out to Istanbul in Turkey I decided that Istanbul deserved 10 nights to do it justice (there are so many sights ), but I expect that being there may or may not be challenging. Istanbul is as far away from ...

... it felt good being able to nonchalantly say we'd already seen them. But it wasn't the tahake we wanted to see today it was the Kiwi and see them we did. It did take about 3 hours for ours eyes to adjust to the night light and then to find the all brown bird in a brown large glass fronted room. But find him we did and he was awesome !! Another tick in the box but next door to him was one of the rarest All white kiwis. It was another emotional moment. ...

... We drove past the very expensive golf course (450$ a round) and lodge (rooms are hundreds of dollars per person), owned by an American billionaire. This is the largest land based colony in the world. The birds are currently building their nests and breeding, but we didn't see any eggs. We took loads of pictures (they are very photogenic) but we have cut them down to half a dozen you will be pleased to know. We then drove to Te Mata Peak, ...

... Highway 5 we are surprised to see steam rising through the trees. We see nothing in our guidebook, but are curious to find out what it’s all about, so we turn off the main highway and see a sign for Wairākei Thermal Valley Road. Looks interesting! To the left is the swanky Wairākei Spa and Golf resort with steaming lakes ...

The first one was to Rotorua. This is also known as Rota-Vegas. I don’t know who named it this, but I don’t think they have been to Vegas. There are no casinos, strippers or sky scrapers. There were and excessive amount of thermal hot pools, mountain bike tracks, and things like zorbing. I just stayed in the hot pools.